On the vast expanse of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, two very different creatures live side by side—but not always ...

Marie Wynan and her husband Ray have been patrolling the forest and marking wombat burrows Forestry Corporation of NSW are burying wombats to death during logging Over 150 burrows were marked but ...

This is the amusing moment a wombat satisfyingly scratched its back ... due to a skin condition called mange, caused by mites burrowing under their skin. Mange is highly contagious and can spread ...

Melina Budden again: “We basically put this in the entry to their burrow, make sure they can’t get out either side, we put a sticker on here to warn the public that this is wombat medication ...

A burrowing owl sits inside an entry tube of an artificial burrow. Jason Fidorra Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Pasco, WA In Washington, burrowing owls are rare. Their population has ...

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I went down a rabbit hole, or rather an owl burrow, and discovered Cape Coral’s quirky “Ground Owl Day” annual tradition, where residents watch a burrowing owl mascot predict six more weeks ...

And so I screamed and I ran back to Dad and the wombat, you know, ran the opposite way, straight down its burrow. I now know that that wombat had mange. But I think that was the moment that really ...

As it turns out, wombat warrens are relatively easy to spot ... was the fact that wombats and rabbits sometimes share the same burrow. Usually it’s the smaller, sneakier rabbits taking advantage ...